Eudora Welty Quotes

Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.

Eudora Welty

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
  • Why
  • Day

• I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Best
  • Always

• Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Literature
  • Say

• Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • You
  • Write
  • Original

• I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Respect

• A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Technology
  • Story
  • Old

• Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Spiritual
  • Aesthetic

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Best

• I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Done
  • Past

• I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Born

• I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Me
  • Best
  • Prefer

• Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Fool

• Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Done
  • Race

• Relax for a moment my Jerry Come out of your dark monastery While Venus is beaming above. Darling, let's talk about love.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Dark
  • Relax

• Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Good
  • Country
  • Family

• I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Commitment

• In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking that night for the White Citizens Council in Yazoo City and they also have a State Charter that they may set up for "private schools." It is no secret.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Up
  • School
  • May

• You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Mind
  • Answer
  • Crossed

• Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper. It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart